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The international organization of production in the regulatory void
Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian - 2018
international outsourcing and "unethical" production are linked through a novel unethical outsourcing incentive, for which we also … the supplier's country favor international outsourcing (as opposed to vertical FDI). We also provide a microfounded model …
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Global sourcing of heterogeneous firms : theory and evidence
Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2015
input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as well as the location of intermediate input production (offshore vs … intensity, but favors outsourcing in industries of high sourcing intensity. Moreover, we find that productivity boosts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476678
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Service offshoring and export experience
Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Marcolin, Luca; Ornelas, Emanuel - 2021
Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of internationalization of firms. A new dataset on the participation of French firms in global value chains reveals that firms with longer export experience in a market are more likely to source...
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2011
firms that are consistent with stylized facts from the recent empirical literature. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing …
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On the organizational structure of multinational firms : which sourcing mode for which Input?
Nowak, Verena Nina; Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2012
organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the "indirect … outsourcing of the "less important" supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer … decides whether to offshore inputs. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; property rights approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540106
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Formal contracts, relational contracts, and the threat-point effect
Itō, Hideshi; Morita, Hodaka - 2011
Can formal contracts help resolving the holdup problem? We address this important question by studying the holdup problem in repeated transactions between a seller and a buyer in which the seller can make relation-specific investments in each period. In contrast to previous findings, we...
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Mis-allocation within firms : internal finance and international trade
Dörr, Sebastian; Marin, Dalia; Suverato, Davide; … - 2021
This paper develops a novel theory of capital mis-allocation within firms that stems from managers' empire building and informational frictions within the organization. Introducing an internal capital market into a two-factor model of multi-segment firms, we show that international competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669734
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The theory of the firm goes global
Marin, Dalia - 2013
What insights can be gained from bringing the theory of the firm to the global economy? I discuss several new features of the world economy that can be explained by incorporating the theory of the firm into the theory of international trade. Among the new features I discuss are the move to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212368
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Quantifying the economic effects of an EU-Japan free trade agreement
Benz, Sebastian; Yalçin, Erdal - 2013
The European Union and Japan have recently launched negotiations about a bilateral free trade agreement as means of economic stimulation, with trade as a driving force to create growth and wealth. Since customs duties are already low, the success of the liberalization process hinges on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764931
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Explaining the size differences of exporter productivity premia : theory and evidence
Geishecker, Ingo; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Sørensen, Allan - 2014
Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to the data. We derive the sectoral EPP in a standard heterogeneous firms trade model and apply the insights from the model to 13 years of data for all Danish manufacturing firms....
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